2Used, especially in conversation, to draw attention to a particular statement or point in a narrative:now, my first impulse was to run awayI don’t like Scotch. Now, if it had been Irish Whiskey you’d offered me

3Used in a request, instruction, or question, typically to give a slight emphasis to one’s words:we can hardly send her back, now can we?run along now

now you're talking

Derivados

nowness

In spite of the crispness and perpetually constructed nowness of data that that appears on screen with each electrical pulse, no matter when it was written, faithfully reconstructed images of the past now fade with their familiarity.

Several wise minds weighed in with their own interpretations of nowness and nature, and, to heighten the moment, the instructor read aloud from the preface to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass.